On the Tuesday morning we headed over to the Tignes ski area, but before we made it over to Tignes the chair that takes us to the top of Toviere at 2704 meters has an avalanche transponder tester unit. Now all the years I have skied this area and I have never noticed this before, probably because I have not wore an avalanche transponder unit and we tend to use this part of the mountain as the gateway over to Tignes so just ski straight off once we get up there. Shame because there are some fantastic views and a restaurant at the top that on a clear day can see across Val d'Isere and Tignes. Now this transponder checking station is a small board with off piste information and avalanche risk on it and underneath it is a small unit where we stand next to, to check we get the green light that our transponder units around our waists are working.
A brief excursion off piste over on the Tignes side and we headed back to Val d'Isere for lunch. If I was not with a guide I would have probably stayed over the Tignes area and had lunch there, but our guide preferred to eat in Val d'Isere. Another good morning and again the pistes were only used to get somewhere quick, and what I really enjoyed is our guide would ski reasonably fast and safely when the skiing allowed and just told us where he was heading and we either kept up or met him at the bottom. My type of skiing, I much prefer to ski like that than to ski stop, ski some more and stop, I find that can be tedious, not to mention can be unsafe if stopping in the middle of the piste, but I think most people know to pull over to one side to stop at the side out of the way.
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